This is a wretched time to be holding a business-related discussion anywhere other than the confines of your office.
Moldova looks stuck in a wretched economic and geographical plight, a country not so much forgotten as never remembered.
The first and last scenes of this movie vaguely remind you of an old Claude Lelouch weepie lovers looking wretched in a picturesque fog.
Despite a wretched run of four straight league defeats, punctuated by a commendable Challenge Cup win at Bradford, the Black and Whites got off to a great start as reverse passes from Kirk Yeaman and Willie Manu sent Briscoe clear for a sixth minute opener.
It had been a wretched day for Sri Lanka, who are 1-0 down in the series.
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Both coaches are under extreme pressure with Hadden looking to improve on a wretched string of results over the past year.
Surrey produced a wretched batting display to be bowled out for 122.
Now he has the chance to make amends for a wretched record of neglect of the country's road and rail system over the past decade.
It was certainly a wretched day for Alastair Cook, in only his second Test as England captain, who could not dislodge the Bangladesh tail until half an hour before lunch.
He had won 36 caps when, starting in 2001, a wretched catalogue of back, groin and hamstring injuries began to hinder his career and he has not made an international appearance since.
But such improvements come on a wretched base.
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If he does, the West will simply have to grit its teeth, in Kosovo perhaps more doggedly even than in Bosnia, and prepare itself for a long haul as an unloved policeman in a wretched part of the world.
Edith had a wretched childhood.
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So the Gaullists, temporarily led by the young and ambitious Nicolas Sarkozy, the party's secretary-general, find themselves squeezed between Mr Pasqua's Europhobes, currently attracting 10-12% of the vote, and Mr Bayrou's Euro-federalists with 8-9%, leaving the main Gaullist-Liberal Democratic list with a wretched 17-20%.
If these four teams continue at this pace, it will be a historically wretched year for any metropolitan area with two ball clubs.
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There is certainly a darkly wretched streak in his background.
You may have some inkling of compassion, because it's a human being in a very wretched state of existence, but I think they're unsympathetic to the extent that, historically, we have not put any kind of public resource at their disposal to help change their lives.
The orphanages mean wretched children, but also a depressing cultural change.
"It's because Tony Blair's philosophy and politics and rhetoric was coming across so clearly, that Labour did not respect and value pensioners, and the 75p from wretched Gordon Brown was just a confirmation of what pensioners were already picking up, in the rhetoric that Labour was choosing to employ, " said Mr Willetts.
Midfield schemer Alexei Eremenko returned from a ban but failed to sparkle in the wretched conditions, while former AC Milan man Willy Aubameyang had a quite debut for the Ayrshire team.
Thankfully, a solution to this wretched problem may now be at hand, thanks, inevitably, to the internet.
Indian casinos have channelled a staggering amount of money to some of America's most wretched places (though how much actually reaches the Indians themselves is a moot point).
The incident raises questions about his future, according to William Cohan, author of House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street.
The exploits of Messrs Sevan, Yakovlev and others may have done more than just a terrible disservice to the wretched people of Iraq they were paid to help.
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The smell is so wretched it takes every ounce of strength for a newcomer not to vomit.
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